Avanzado 2 Mañana May 2016

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Avanzado 2 Morning Course

19 de mayo de 2016

AVANZADO 2 Our morning course | The most expensive private class in Cantabria

Learn to be vague Although it actually belongs to the skills one usually develops in the advanced level, it sounds nice when a speaker is able to hesitate and show your strategies to talk around problems. Fillers such as you know, you see, I mean, right? kind of, sort of, like, etc… may help you get out of many a jam.

Not everything is very, very, very At the basic level everything is very important. Boyfriends are very tall and exams are very difficult. Remember there are alternatives. Something can be rather creepy, quite interesting, fairly good or absolutely fascinating.

“Avanzado” is not advanced Now it may sound like an intolerable platitude but the fact remains: Avanzado 2, however misleading it may seem, does not mean “advanced”. It’s a label chosen by bureaucrats who must have forgotten what the B2 level is all about. According to the European Framework of

Extreme adjectives

Reference for Languages, B2 is just an

Expressions such as: utterly bone-chilling or life-crushing may belong to the truly advanced level. That said, you should not forget that at the B2 level an examiner expects candidates to be able to handle expressions like: it was boiling hot, the room was packed, Jim is just bizarre, it was a terrifying experience.

intermediate level. In other words, it is the level

End-of-course issue

that allows you to travel to Amsterdam and make a professional presentation but is not strong

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